There’s a Fanny Mendelssohn Prize. It is judged by men
mainSuppressed throughout her short life by her famous brother, forgotten for the next century, Fanny Mendelssohn never got a real crack at posterity.
To address the injustice, a kind lady from Hamburg, Heide Schwarzweller, organised a competition in Fanny’s name with a 10,000 Euro prize and a recording on Genuin Classics.
This year’s prize was won by a violinist, Matthias Weil.
The jury was made up entirely of men – Jürgen Kesting, Jürgen Ernst, Dieter Rexroth, Niklas Schmidt, Markus Fein, Ralf Ruhnau and Holger Busse.
Nobody has learned anything from Fanny’s life story.
Sigh ……
last sentence…!
premise, silly…sexist
poor Fanny !
an all Fanny-women jury?
rather sporting of the donor and her jury!